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Economic Empowerment: An Avenue To Gender Equality In Afghanistan, Heather C. Odell
Economic Empowerment: An Avenue To Gender Equality In Afghanistan, Heather C. Odell
Global Tides
This paper examines the state of women’s rights in Afghanistan, recommending economic empowerment as the most effective and culturally sensitive tool in achieving gender equality. Women’s rights in Afghanistan came to the forefront of the international community’s attention following the entry of the United States armed forces in 2001. Media outlets highlighted the Taliban’s egregious treatment of women and government agencies and international NGOs poured into the country with aims of liberating women from oppressive circumstances. While significant strides have been made since the Taliban's fall from power, in many ways, women today remain subordinate. Over a decade later, women …
The “Great Game” For The Twenty-First Century: Islamic Extremism And Central Asia, Ian Sethre
The “Great Game” For The Twenty-First Century: Islamic Extremism And Central Asia, Ian Sethre
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan by Michael Griffin. London: Pluto Press, 2001. 272pp.
and
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 281pp.
and
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 274pp.
Trends. Spinning Buddhas, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Spinning Buddhas, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article discusses the March 2001 destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan by the Taliban.